Synonyms for vertigo
ˈvɜr tɪˌgoʊ; vərˈtɪdʒ əˌnizver·ti·go

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1. vertigonoun

   Synonyms:
   giddiness, dizziness

2. vertigonoun

   A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.

   Synonyms:
   giddiness, dizziness

3. vertigonoun

   A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.

   Synonyms:
   giddiness, dizziness

4. vertigonoun

   The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.

   Synonyms:
   dizziness, giddiness

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.8 / 5 votes

1. dizziness, giddiness, lightheadedness, vertigonoun

   a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall

   Synonyms:
   silliness, dizziness, giddiness, lightheadedness

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1. vertigonoun

   Synonyms:
   dizziness, giddiness, swimming of the head

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1. List of paraphrases for "vertigo":

   dizziness, dizzy, trembling, dizzying

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1. Milan Kundera:

   Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

2. Steve McCurry:

   For a long time after I had kind of a vertigo, in my apartment -- I live on the 17th floor -- I felt like the building was going to fall. Your mind played tricks on you.

3. Ogden Nash:

   And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.

4. Jason Day:

   The vertigo is a difficult thing, it just comes and goes whenever it pleases. I wasn't expecting it, i've had it before and there have been years between stretches, and unfortunately it happened at the U.S. Open and that knocked me off my feet.

5. Stephen Mallon:

   I had never seen anything like this, and I've been in New York for over 20 years ... there's a sense of vertigo as they drop -- you want to hold on as it falls.